Synopsis:
Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.
Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.
Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.
And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity…
Review:
Well.
Here we are.
The final book of the series…
I have legit put off reading this book for months because lets face it after my previous reviews, I am not a huge fan of the series but if I see a massive pile of shit on the sidewalk, I am going to call it out. It’s in my nature. You don’t get fluff and the whole fake persona that follows the trends that bookstagram seems to set. What you see is on my account is what you get. So I put Queen of Nothing where it belongs…. On the sidewalk.
There is no bloody plot. This is a prime example of a book that will pull shit from anywhere to get some sort of plot working. This is book three… so if you haven’t explained it well enough for the plot to fall into place by the third book don’t pull shit out of no where to ensure your plot is ‘entertaining’. There were so many random things that were mentioned through out the book that could have been discussed in book 1 and 2, but they weren’t. Instead it was ramdomly thrown in the third book to ensure that this miserable attempt of a plot (where nothing really fucking happens) could make some pathetic attempt to be logical.
Legit though. If you read the last 5 pages that was the only interesting part! And honestly those 5 pages weren’t even that great. But the whole book seemed to be fluff before those final pages. A build up for nothing. It was like getting the worst stomach pain in the world and you know that you are about to explode and you have this mental image of doing the most reliving shit but as you finally sit down on your porcelain white thrown all you can do is a sad pathetic fart. So much pain for absolutely nothing. That’s what this book was. Timewasting fluff and pain that was hidden beneath a pretty cover.
The continuation of the world building. There was none. No description. Nothing. It was almost like this book was a draft, where the world building was meant to be added as an after thought? Maybe it was one of those books where you have to use your whole imagination to create this world? Which begs the question, since the descriptions were fucking poor in this book and fans/artist have to use their own imagination to build this world in their art, does Black have any rights on it any more? Just saying… since she wasn’t all the rights to her merchandise, you might want to actually make sure it was a half decent book.
Also the writing really fell short in this book. It wasn’t thought through. This felt like it was rushed for cash and nothing else. Compared to her White Cat series, this is almost like a poorly fanfic for an SJM book. Plucking my eyebrows was more exciting than this book.
Requirements to be a character in this book – be dramatic as fuck.
If this even made it to the screen, talent agents would just have to put the requirement as ‘be a boring bitch’
Jude is draft and arrogant. Carden is actually boring and spent most of his dialogue repeating what others have said. I don’t understand when people say that they find Jude inspiring? Really? You find this self centred turd of a character inspiring? She is nothing more than a pathetic bitch that is in love with a guy that treats her like shit. And honestly, he isn’t any better. ‘Annoying’ should be the words used in fascination of these characters, not inspiring. Because Jude is worse than Bella. And that’s bloody saying something.
But rounding it up – none of these characters are likeable. None. They could have all died and I would have given no reaction. They are poorly writing, described, and have zero character development. Dull pigeons that want to control others.
Repetitive fact. Faeries can’t lie. Cool. We get it. Don’t tell us every second paragraph. Oh you need to hit a certain word count for the book? Oh that has to explain why you constantly repeat everything. I thought you did it because you must have thought us readers were stupid or something? Why do authors do this? Are we goldfish? Do we have a hard time remembering facts from the book? Surely there has to be an answer as to why everything seemed to be on a constant loop.
Summing it up:
The plot escaped. Like that bitch ran for the fucking hills.
Lack of details.
Repetitive
Mostly internal dialogue
Big build up fart
Boring
Repetitive
Bitchy characters
Lame
Decided to watch grass growing was more entertaining.
Oh the book ending…. … wasn’t worth it.
Out of the whole series, this book would have to take the medal for being the worst book. You know its bad when I can’t even find a single thing positive to say about the book. At this stage, Queen of Nothing is the worst book I have read in 2020!
Rating: 1/5
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316310406